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Extrait d'un article de arstechnica:

In the past many people complained about the inconsistent look of different applications under Linux, especially those using the prevailing toolkits Qt (KDE) and GTK (GNOME). Numerous Linux distributors reacted to it and created similarly looking themes for both toolkits. But this did not really solve the actual problem, since as soon as the user changed the theme for one toolkit the other toolkit's theme was out of sync again. Furthermore many themes are still available only for one toolkit, while the few themes available for both usually need twice the efforts to maintain. This might finally change with the GTK-QT Theme Engine for GTK 2.x by David Sansome. Just as the name implies it is a theme for GTK 2.x, but its target are the users of a KDE desktop. What makes it different from other GTK 2.x themes is that it does not include own resources for displaying e.g. a button, but instead calls Qt to paint the button. This allows KDE users to freely change their theme without needing to worry that the GTK 2.x theme might look odd then. And it potentially allows Linux distributors to maintain their custom theme for Qt without worrying about porting it to GTK 2.x. The project is now located at freedesktop.org.